{"author":"Walter Cronkite","author_id":"Walter+Cronkite","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journa.","author":"Walter Cronkite","tags":["dogma","journalism","liberal","liberalism","objectivity","politics"],"id":5326,"author_id":"Walter+Cronkite"},{"text":"Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.","author":"Walter Cronkite","tags":["democracy","journalism","need "],"id":28331,"author_id":"Walter+Cronkite"},{"text":"It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.","author":"Walter Cronkite","tags":["peace","conflict","world "],"id":51399,"author_id":"Walter+Cronkite"},{"text":"Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it  and it has never been adopted there.","author":"Walter Cronkite","tags":["home"],"id":61918,"author_id":"Walter+Cronkite"},{"text":"I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.","author":"Walter Cronkite","tags":["hope","proud","little "],"id":62251,"author_id":"Walter+Cronkite"},{"text":"The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.","author":"Walter Cronkite","tags":["fight","television","evening "],"id":70676,"author_id":"Walter+Cronkite"},{"text":"We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... When we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.","author":"Walter Cronkite","tags":["daily","journalism","page "],"id":80324,"author_id":"Walter+Cronkite"},{"text":"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.","author":"Walter Cronkite","tags":["democracy","voting"],"id":85219,"author_id":"Walter+Cronkite"},{"text":"A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.","author":"Walter Cronkite","tags":["good","journalism","try "],"id":136283,"author_id":"Walter+Cronkite"},{"text":"I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.","author":"Walter Cronkite","tags":["media","process","think "],"id":173526,"author_id":"Walter+Cronkite"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}